Word: faa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...barrage of criticism hurled at the U.S. agency that is supposed to ensure safety in the skies. In one report after another, the Federal Aviation Administration was assailed for failing to do its job. In a characteristic remark, the National Transportation Safety Board, a separate U.S. agency, described the FAA's management as "inadequate, ineffective and unresponsive." The week's attacks...
...there was another warning, this one from the FAA. The reason: four days earlier, the U.S. embassy in Helsinki had received an anonymous phone call from a person with a Middle Eastern accent. The tipster stated that a man named Abdullah planned to pass a device to a female Finnish passenger, who would unwittingly transport it to Frankfurt, then onto a U.S.-bound craft. U.S. and Finnish authorities dismissed the message because the caller was a known hoaxer...
Despite the accusations of irresponsibility involved in this particular case, the larger question remains unanswered. As the FAA noted in December, it and the airlines constantly receive terrorist threats. To publish them all would effectively halt air travel and give the terrorists an unprecedented victory...
...average $815 in maintenance costs for every hour that a plane is carrying passengers, vs. $377 for Delta, which has a newer fleet and advanced maintenance equipment. Some experts and airline employees have contended that cash-strapped airlines will be tempted to skimp on maintenance. But when the FAA conducted an intensive probe of one such carrier, Eastern, no serious faults were found...
...builder. The Seattle-based company, which sold 56% of the jets delivered worldwide last year, has a record $54 billion backlog of orders for 1,049 planes. But that enviable business has led to late deliveries and unaccustomed lapses in quality control. Over the past four years, the FAA has levied 14 fines totaling $245,000 against Boeing for putting faulty parts in exit doors and for other quality-control errors. The fines included a $145,000 penalty that Boeing paid last March for installing thousands of defective self-locking nuts on the flight controls...